2018 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Anthology

Book of Swords
(Winner)
Gardner Dozois

Black Feathers
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Bookburners
(Nominee)
Max Gladstone

The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
(Nominee)
Mahvesh Murad

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Cosmic Powers
(Nominee)
John Joseph Adams

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
(Nominee)
Gardner Dozois

The Best of Subterranean
(Nominee)
William Schafer

Infinity Wars
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Transcendent 2
(Nominee)
Bogi Takacs

Art Book

Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini
(Nominee)
Wendy Pini

Above the Timberline
(Nominee)
Gregory Manchess

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium
(Nominee)
Paul Kidby

Goblin Market, and Other Poems
(Nominee)
Christina Rosetti

Collection

Tender
(Nominee)
Sofia Samatar

Wicked Wonders
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

The Refrigerator Monologues
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente

Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories
(Nominee)
Naomi Kritzer

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
(Nominee)
Carmen Maria Machado

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
(Nominee)
Charlie Jane Anders

Strange Weather
(Nominee)
Joe Hill

The Overneath
(Nominee)
Peter S. Beagle

Fantasy Novel

The Stone Sky
(Winner)
N.K. Jemisin

The House of Binding Thorns
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

City of Miracles
(Nominee)
Robert Jackson Bennett

The Delirium Brief
(Nominee)
Charles Stross

Spoonbenders
(Nominee)
Daryl Gregory

The Ruin of Angels
(Nominee)
Max Gladstone

Horizon
(Nominee)
Fran Wilde

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
(Nominee)
John Crowley

The Stone in the Skull
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

Jade City
(Nominee)
Fonda Lee

First Novel

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
(Winner)
Theodora Goss

The Bear and the Nightingale
(Nominee)
Katherine Arden

Amberlough
(Nominee)
Lara Elena Donnelly

Lincoln in the Bardo
(Nominee)
George Saunders

Winter Tide
(Nominee)
Ruthanna Emrys

Amatka
(Nominee)
Karin Tidbeck

The Art of Starving
(Nominee)
Sam J. Miller

Autonomous
(Nominee)
Annalee Newitz

An Unkindness of Ghosts
(Nominee)
Rivers Solomon

The City of Brass
(Nominee)
S.A. Chakraborty

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

The Changeling
(Winner)
Victor Lavalle

Behind Her Eyes
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinborough

Ubo
(Nominee)
Steve Rasnic Tem

Universal Harvester
(Nominee)
John Darnielle

Ill Will
(Nominee)
Dan Chaon

The Night Ocean
(Nominee)
Paul LaFarge

Food of the Gods
(Nominee)
Cassandra Khaw

Mormama
(Nominee)
Kit Reed

After the End of the World
(Nominee)
Jonathan L. Howard

Red Snow
(Nominee)
Ian R. MacLeod

Novelette

Extracurricular Activities
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Come See the Living Dryad
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

Waiting on a Bright Moon
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Lamentation of Their Women
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

Novella

All Systems Red
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Passing Strange
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

Home
(Nominee)
Nnedi Okorafor

In Calabria
(Nominee)
Peter S. Beagle

Agents of Dreamland
(Nominee)
Caitlin R. Kiernan

River of Teeth
(Nominee)
Sarah Gailey

Down Among the Sticks and Bones
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

The Black Tides of Heaven
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

Science Fiction

The Collapsing Empire
(Winner)
John Scalzi

The Stars Are Legion
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

New York 2140
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Seven Surrenders
(Nominee)
Ada Palmer

Walkaway
(Nominee)
Cory Doctorow

Wolf Moon
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Borne
(Nominee)
Jeff VanderMeer

Raven Stratagem
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Provenance
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie

Persepolis Rising
(Nominee)
James S.A. Corey

Short Story

The Martian Obelisk
(Winner)
Linda Nagata

Fire
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand

Young Adult

Akata Warrior
(Winner)
Nnedi Okorafor

Chalk
(Nominee)
Paul Cornell

Frogkisser!
(Nominee)
Garth Nix

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart
(Nominee)
Stephanie Burgis

Buried Heart
(Nominee)
Kate Elliott

In Other Lands
(Nominee)
Sarah Rees Brennan

Shadowhouse Fall
(Nominee)
Daniel Jose Older

La Belle Sauvage
(Nominee)
Philip Pullman

A Skinful of Shadows
(Nominee)
Frances Hardinge

Tool of War
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Award Categories

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Art Book

Collection

Fantasy Novel

First Novel

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Nonfiction

Novelette

Novella

Science Fiction Novel

Short Story

Young Adult Novel

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